Early December was marked with Call for Papers opened for everyone willing to speak at Positive Hack Days V. Later we announced the first speakers introducing John Matherly, the creator of Shodan, John Bambenek, a cyber detective, and Chris Hadnagy, a professional social engineer. More

In an age when everyone is increasingly connected, the people of Positive Technologies created a unique event to unite the information security community. Elite hackers and global leaders come together to experience information security issues directly through collaboration and competition.

PHDays combines the professionalism of a huge research community with the excitement of hacking competitions. Unlike trade shows, PHDays minimizes formalities and maximizes practice.

Last year, more than 2,000 people took part, including leading information security experts, intriguing personalities on the international hacking scene, students and young scientists, government representatives, and CIOs and CISOs of large international companies. These members of the information security community came together for two days of non-stop activities like: